Here are a number of resources to help you prepare for class.
First, here is a list of questions you can ask yourself to find out how prepared you are and how much your instructor expects of you. Mrs. Kruse bases 10% of your grade on how well prepared you are for class.
There are a number of ways to look at literary motifs and themes-- ideas and symbols that recur in stories. In your summer reading, you had a chapter from Foster's How to Read Like a Professor. Here is an outline of his entire book.
Christopher Booker wrote a VERY long book about how all stories boil down to 7 (plus 2) basic plot lines. He bases much of his work on the famous, pioneering psychoanalyst, Carl Jung. Here is an outline of his book, The Seven Basic Plots
First, here is a list of questions you can ask yourself to find out how prepared you are and how much your instructor expects of you. Mrs. Kruse bases 10% of your grade on how well prepared you are for class.
For a good overview of how to mark a textbook, check out this essay by Adler
There are a number of ways to look at literary motifs and themes-- ideas and symbols that recur in stories. In your summer reading, you had a chapter from Foster's How to Read Like a Professor. Here is an outline of his entire book.
Christopher Booker wrote a VERY long book about how all stories boil down to 7 (plus 2) basic plot lines. He bases much of his work on the famous, pioneering psychoanalyst, Carl Jung. Here is an outline of his book, The Seven Basic Plots